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Confirmed

TRIVIA

- Waris was working at a London MacDonald's when she was discovered by a photographer.

- Her name means desert flower.

- She appeared in the 1987 & 1997 Pirelli Calendar.

- She was a Bond girl side by side with Timothy Dalton in 'The Living Daylights'.

- She is a cousin of fellow Somali supermodel Iman.

- She has written three books: 'Desert flower' about her childhood (including genital mutilation), her escape to England and life as a model and 'Desert Dawn' about the return to her birthland Somalia and 'Desert children'. Waris is a UN ambassador for the abolition of female genital mutilation.